Mayte Quílez, editor of El Jueves, told El Huffington Post that the cover "does not intend to portray Muhammad. It's a parody of the situation we are experiencing."

"If you can't depict Muhammad, how do you know it is him in the cartoons?"

Quílez added that the magazine had not been notified of any possible consequences of the cover — but the Spanish newspaper ABC reports that the Spanish embassy in Egypt has asked Spanish nationals in the country to take precautions.

El Jueves is known for its satire, pushing social boundaries through humor. This is not the first time the magazine has referred to drawings of Muhammad on its cover; it paid homage to the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that published its own images of Muhammad in 2005. The headline depicted El Jueves' mascot, a joker, saying, "We were going to draw Muhammad, but we shit ourselves!"

Two of the magazine's cartoonists were also fined in 2007 for depicting Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia having sex, in which the prince stated: ""Do you realize, if you get pregnant this will be the closest thing I've done to work in my whole life."